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D28441-4
Date(s)
- 1947-06-18 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Salmon troller "Rujac" and crew, Cary Wilbur. When Jack Mandy came to work at Todd-Pacific Shipyards from Michigan he fell in love with the ocean and fishing. His wife, Ruth, and son, Jack Jr., also got interested in salmon fishing. Jack, a former shipyard welder, decided to build a fishing boat. And so he did, in his neighbor's back yard. He bought plans from Edwin Monk of Seattle and built this 40 foot, 5 inch, fishing vessel. He named it for his wife and him and they set out at the end of June for fishing of Ketchican, Alaska. Navy ships are in the background. (T.Times, 7/3/1947, p.3)
Mandy, Jack; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Warships--Tacoma--1940-1950;